Edward Joseph Young Quotes

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.

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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Dream
  • Photography
  • Luck

• You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Choose

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Sleep
  • Too Much

• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Up
  • School
  • Knowledge

• Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Act

• I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Want
  • Engagement
  • Ring

• Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Feeling
  • Hand
  • Always

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Could
  • Compete
  • Gibson

• Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trump
  • Rights
  • Silent

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Adversity

• One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Work
  • Money

• At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life

• Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

  

  Kesha
  • Society

• They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Knowledge
  • Food
  • Question

• MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • World

• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Talent
  • Curiosity

• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Glory
  • Envy
  • Smoke